GOOD NEWS FALLS GENTLY features the works of Chicago-based composer and oboist Patricia Morehead: Disquieted Souls, inspired by pre-Christian Celtic legends of goddesses and the supernatural; The Handmaid's Tale, motivated by the chilling, futuristic writing of Canadian writer Margaret
Atwood; It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers, a reflection on modern times
and the proclivity towards bad news; Ladders of Anxiety, an abstract work
inspired by colorful medical charts that taps into our inner anxieties; and
Good News Falls Gently, a setting of the poetry of Chicago-based writer
Regina Harris Baiocchi that portrays an intense spiritual faith from a
feminist perspective.